Our final day involved a stop at Petworth House and garden. The house contains extensive selection of Turner, and Van Dyke, amongst many other, and particularly in Covid times, were concentrated in just a few rooms, giving a very intensive and easily digested tour. Notably two William Blakes were “hidden” in an archway, easily missed …

After a blustery night we set off for the Open Air Museum www.wealddown.co.uk But got distracted as we passed Goodwood Racecourse and stopped off at The Trundle, which we duly climbed despite the wind. After this The Open Air Museum, last visit ?35 years ago, Ying reckons she’d never been… Its a bit difficult to …

Due to other plans being cancelled/delayed, we decided on an ad hoc trip centred around Chichester, where I spent about 10 years, from 1963 to 1973/4, leaving soon after starting secondary school to go to Cornwall. Although not intended purely as nostalgia it seemed appropriate to revisit some of my memories for the first day …

After a lazy breakfast followed by a lazy lunch in Brecon, we wandered the town, very nice, randoms shops in random streets, Sally picked up a lovely top in the Red Cross Charity Shop, and then we were on our way home. We travelled down the A465 and A4042 roughly along the River Usk, which …

We drove East through Lampeter, possibly nice but completely shut on a Sunday, and stopped for a while at Dolaucothi Roman gold mines, unfortunately closed but a nice little walk down to the river. On to Llangadog to meet Sally and Gary at The Goose and Cuckoo pub for a nice Sunday lunch. Suddenly the …

After a leisurely start we set off along the coastal path to New Quay, for the most part gently undulating (avoiding the optional cliff walk section 😱) Although no dolphins or seals it was a lovely sunny walk until the last 500yards descending steeply into New Quay, testing knees+++ We had been recommended the Lime …

It started a bit blustery made more worrying by the number of recently fallen trees, and then started pouring, scuppering our plans for Portmeirion en route. However we zigzagged down western Wales visiting Porthmadoc – raining Dolgellau – rather grey but possibly nice with a crowd, Covid seemed to have done its thing there… Past …

Today we took a leisurely 10km walk from the park through Beddgelert Forest in a big loop taking in views of Snowdon The Forest was amazingly lush (i.e. dripping wet) with moss covering almost everything that didn’t move At the top we were greeted by Llyn Llewelyn (lake) where we stopped for pate sandwiches and …

Today stayed put at Beddgelert Camp Site, after a rainy night we found we’d pitched on what turned into a river. Luckily our neighbour opposite upped sticks and left a dry and level pitch for us to move into. We then decided to walk into Beddgelert village itself, about 4 undulating km away. Part forestry …

A lazy breakfast of slow cooked bacon rolls (Cadac BBQ still not mastered) then walked along the canal, part of Christleton and looped back. Drove Off along A55 coastal road planning on stopping in Conwy, but noticed Conwy RSPB nature reserve and tried that instead. Lovely views across the estuary and lakes there, seeing redshanks, …